Hola people. Still enjoying the winter? There’s something special about the winter, isn’t it? You love being out in the mild sun, enjoy a great lunch, sip some hot coffee, enjoy some cakes and have an endless gossip with friends. Winters are also awesome for date palm jaggery or ‘nolen gur’ that we call in Bengali. You can extract the liquid secretion from the date palm trees only in the cold winter mornings. This kind of date palm jaggery is a specialty of Bengal and in winters you will find various kinds of sweets flavored with the date palm jaggery. One of the popular kind is Joynagarer moa. Now if you can’t find ‘nolengur‘ you can always substitute with sugar for the sweetness. Today I have the awesome Uttpal Krushna who we all fondly call UK from Fashionable Foodz sharing an easy Bengali Moa Recipe with sugar and also explains how to make the authentic way in his Bengali Joynagarer Moa Recipe with ‘nolen gur‘ (if you have managed to source it). Over to UK.

Bengal has always been famous for the sweet dishes it has given the world. Some of them have scored at International Food festivals and left a mark on the Planets culinary history. Moa is one seasonal dish which not many must have tried outside Bengal. Jaynagarer Moa (pronounced as Joynogor’er Moa) is a dish which has got its name from Jaynagar town of the South 24 Parganas District in West Bengal. This delicacy is prepared from Date Palm Jaggery and Kanakchur Khoi. It is now a popular sweet, being produced in Kolkata and elsewhere, sometimes with cheaper ingredients and chemical flavors. Of course, this does not happen always. When we want to make it otherwise we substitute the jaggery (Gur) with Sugar. Though this looks like a very complex dish to make, the recipe is very simple.

Let us try to make one today and relish this one of the epic dish from amar shonar Bangla.

More than the dish I like to know about its origin and how it got its taste. It is fun to know that gur can be exchanged with sugar according to the taste. It looks like a complex sweet to make but your recipe makes it simpler to make.Geethica Mehra recently posted…How to deal with exam stress

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